Animus, Book 1: Belch, Chapter 8: True Source

Animus, Book 1: Belch, Chapter 8: True Source Animus, Book 1: Belch, Chapter 8: True Source

"There's strength in numbers," Cyan commented. "It's always worked before."
"Strength isn't the only thing we need, though," said Anthadd.
"Right, we need to find out whatever we can before we try fighting him," added Siris.
"Maybe we ought to split up in that case," suggested Mike.
"One giant group isn't that efficient for searching, and the larger the group, the more easily we're found and attacked," agreed Cyan.
"That might be a good idea," said Ness. "I don't think we can fight him yet, so we should keep looking for info. Do we split up, or not?" he asked the group.
Skulryk and Rusty looked at each other and started to think. Eventually, they made up their mind.
"Alright, I say that we split up. Smaller groups are always more convenient," Skulryk said.
Rusty nodded in agreement."Aye, that's right. I say we split up. It'd be betta' for us, I think." Ness, Paula, and Tracy nodded in agreement.
"What do you say, Luna? Mika? Should we split up," Mike asked. Mika only shrugged.
Luna was more outspoken in her opinion. "Yes, I believe that we should, in fact, split up. We could find out a lot more about stuff with 4 groups than with just one giant blob of a group. ... Just so long as we don't have to be with strangers. That would just seem odd."
"Yeah, I agree. If that's the case, maybe you and I should stick together. Skulryk would probably want to come with us, right?" Mike looked at him. He only nodded. "Alright. Well-" Mike was suddenly cut off.
"What about me?!" Poo cried. "I don't wanna be all by myself!"
"Umm... okay. I suppose that you could come with..." Mike swallowed hard. "I mean, I guess that you could come with us. Just please, PLEASE, try not to cause any problems."
Rusty volunteered to be the leader of another group. "'Ey Ness, Paula, Tracy, you're comin' with me, awright? Mika, you can come with us to if you wanna." That essentially set up another group.
Anthadd stood up. "Well, since we already know each other, Cyan, Siris, Anna, and I shall stay together. It would be much easier that way." They crowded close together, ready to go. Cyan looked at Anna, and blanched slightly. Anna pulled down her eyelid at him, then winked.
Ness walked out in front of the groups that had been established. They had clustered and rallied near their prospective teams and awaited what Ness had to say. "Guys, be very careful. Try not to get into any fights. We don't know what happened to those people. Whatever happened to them could easily happen to you. Just look for Belch and if you find him, try to meet up with everybody else." He turned to Anna.
"Umm... would it be alright if we used this place as a rally point?" Anna looked at him with a fierce glare.
"Well, I suppose that that would be alright. Just don't touch any of my stuff." She glanced at Poo. Poo grinned and backed away slowly.
Ness turned back. "Alright, we can meet back here. Just be on the lookout for anything out of the ordinary, like bases and caves and piles of barf. If you find any of that stuff, make a note of it and come back here. We may be able to nip that barfy pile in the bud, although I highly doubt it..." The groups then left, in search of information pertaining to Belch.

"HEY!" RG shouted. "Where do I go?"
Anna looked strangly at RG and replied, "You can stay here and watch the hut."
Cyan slapped Anna a high five. RG knew that he wasn't wanted so he decided to just fly off on his one.

RG spotted a lone island far out in the ocean and landed on it. He sat down and started to think if he really should be involved in this.
RG needed some serious time to think, and wished he had someone to comfort him. He wished that everyone didn't hate him. He decided to just rest for a while. So be it, if everyone hated him, he would just not go with them. RG decided to go back home and think about what could have happened if he had friends.
RG didn't really understand what a friend is, because no one had ever given him a chance.
He sat down and began to cry.

"So, group, where shall we go first?" Poo questioned.
"Well, I don't suppose that Belch would be on this island..." Mike said. "So I propose that we leave for somewhere else...but..."
"But, unfortunately," Luna began where Mike left off. "we're left without a boat. I wonder how that happened." she finished off, glaring at Poo.
"What?" Poo asked through his wide, innocent eyes. "I have a way out of this. First of all, we find a boat. Then we sail away!" Skulryk, Luna, and Mike looked at Poo as though he were crazy. And perhaps he was.
"How do you suppose we find a boat on this island?" Mike asked. Just as he said it, they spotted it...they listened to the talking in the distance.
"Honey, are you sure this is the island for our honeymoon?" a blond haired woman asked a man who appeared to be her husband.
"Of course, dear," the man replied. "I wouldn't have sailed here on this boat if it wasn't the ideal place."
"All right, where's the hotel?" his wife asked, frowning.
"According to this map," the man said knowingly, "it should be north of here." The couple began walking towards the hotel.
"This is our chance!" Poo yelled as he ran towards the boat which the couple had left.
"Poo, you aren't thinking of stealing this boat?!" Mike said, astonished.
"This is our lucky break! We gotta take it!" Skulryk said, agreeing with Poo.
"It isn't very nice or legal," Luna said reasonably, "but we have to do this if we expect to get anywhere."
"Agreed," Poo said as he climbed aboard the boat.
"I don't know about this..." Mike said, scratching his head. But he climbed in anyway.

SimonBob sat in the corner of the hut, watching the events transpire. Groups were formed, everyone left, and he just sat there. "Now what?" he said to himself.
Clearly, it was time to take care of business, old-school style.
He stepped outside the hut, just in time to see a large pile of bile wash up on the shore. "Excuse me," it said, "but could you please direct me to Anna the fire shaman? I'm supposed to kill her."
"Uhh... she's right behind you."
The Pile of Bile turned to look, giving SimonBob the opportunity to practice his Twin Hooks attack. A pair of harpoons burst from his sleeves, goring the PoB in the rear.
"Arghh!" gasped the PoB. "I'm... too weak... but Master Belch has been strengthening himself, and is more powerful than ever! Your friends are walking straight into a trap!" With that, it died.
"Woah, a trap. I'll have to find and warn the others about this," said SimonBob. "But first..." He headed back into the hut, took out his Mystical CD, and popped it into the player. Reusing an old attack always calls for a quick party, thought SimonBob.

And while all of this important stuff was happening, Dan wandered aimlessly around the coast of this small island.
"Man, where is everyone else?" Dan said after a particularly long meandering session. He seemed to have not noticed everyone else had gathered around Anna's hut and subsequently left. "It's like God forgot to keep me in the adventure for the last few hours..." he joked to no one in particular.
It was there he met a couple. Civilized life after hours of endless walking. Joy. The female spoke first.
"Hello, son. Have you by any chance seen a boat? It seems to have drifted off," She said calmly.
"Yes, like she said. Only...SOMEONE HAS STOLEN IT! We are hopelessly lost on this island, no phones, no lights, no moto..." the man began, but quickly stopped after receiving a small but noticeable shove from his wife.
"Don't mind him. So anyway, have you seen it?"
Dan looked around, and sure enough, there it was! He looked a bit closer, and was overjoyed at the site of Mike, Skulryk, Luna, and...Poo, who had obviously been the mastermind of this little scheme. Not wanting to get his friends in trouble, Dan denied. The woman calmly continued to look as the man went along at a frenzied run, vowing to avenge the lost of his precious boat.
Dan looked at the boat in the distance. How would he get over there?
His question was answered quickly as a breeze blew a small piece of paper with one phrase on it.
"Huh..." Dan read it aloud. "PSI Teleport?" and with that, was wisked away to the borrowed boat. The people there were obviously surprised to see him.
"Dan..." Mike said. "I thought you got lost in the plotline!" His comment was met with general confusion. "Er...Never mind."

SimonBob grooved to his choice music. "Yeah, this is good.... I'm glad she has such a good sound system. Anyway, I'll go warn them in a couple of minutes."
Suddenly, Sulami jumped in through the door. "A-HA!" he cried in hilarity. "They all left, so now I can have a look around." He noticed SimonBob. "Ack! They left you to guard the place, didn't they?"
SimonBob turned around. "Oh, it's that goony kid again. Hey, I don't think she wants you in here, you know."
"Don't call me goony!" shot Sulami. Then, "You're guarding the place, aren't you? Who are you anyway?"
The questioned shook his head. "Name's SimonBob. Naw, I'm not even with the others. I have my own agenda, although Belch does have to be stopped." He paused his CD. "What's your name, and what's YOUR reason for going after Belch?"
There was silence as Sulami had a seat on the floor. "SulamiTea. And I'm just curious. My twin and I are always poking around, seeing what other people are doing. Also, if Belch mutates everyone, I won't be able to come here anymore, so... it seems necessary."
SimonBob nodded. "Yeah. Well, I'm going soon, but not until I get another track in."
SulamiTea acknowledged this, and got up and headed for the door. I wonder where that other kid that I didn't recognize went? And where was Dan, besides that? And didn't those other guys look like the Anthadd and Cyan that Tsurami described? This is way too confusing. I didn't get to pump the others for information. Maybe I'll find them and....... well, maybe not... SulamiTea, thoroughly wracked with indecisiveness, walked out of the hut and wandered off in a random direction.
SimonBob unpaused the CD and moved to the music. As he enjoyed himself, he opened his coat and looked at his arsenal. "Hmmm.... wonder if I'm well-equipped enough. I could run into more henchmen of that sewage blob." He looked over all of his weapons, and then grinned. "Ah, what the heck. I think I'll be okay. If I warn everyone about his trap, he's pretty much gone." He relaxed, and started on the last track he'd listen to before he departed.

Rusty was leading the group, which was made up of Ness, Paula, Tracy, and Mika; through the swamp, trying to find some clues. Paula stepped into a deep part of the lake and pulled it out to find her left foot soaking wet.
"Oh, Deep Darkness hasn't changed one bit..." Paula moaned. "Whatever happened to those Tenda tribes?"
"I think they went underground with the other Tenda Tribes who aren't afraid to speak," Ness suggested.
Tracy was left in the dark, whereas Mika didn't seem confused when she heard the name Tendas.
"What are Tendas?" Tracy asked.
Mika looked up and replied, "They're small green creatures with sticks for arms."
Ness and Paula stared at Mika in surprise that she knew what they were.
"You know them?" Ness asked slowly.
"Know them? I used to be one of them. You guys beat Giygas, I remembered, which broke the curse on me..." Mika sighed, "But I don't want to get into that, since we have to deal with something far more important than this."
Then a moan was heard from behind the bushes. Rusty put his arm in front of the group and said, "Stay back. I got a bad feeling about this..."
Rusty slowly approached the bush with his left fist curled up, ready to attack any threat that might come out.

Meanwhile, Mike was apoligizing to Dan for not considering him among the group. Dan protested and said that it was a honest mistake. Luna was at the steering wheel, while Skulryk examined his dagger.
"Where should we go?" Luna asked Mike.
"More importantly, where's Poo?" Mike said with a bit of a concerned voice, "Last time we left him alone on a boat, he set it on fire."
Skulryk took a break from examining his dagger and said, "He said something about making food to make up for his strange antics."
"Uh... food? I don't like the sound of that..." Dan said with a small peep.

Anna sighed, trying to not to argue with Cyan on which way to go, as the four ghosts back her up. Siris was occupied at the moment about the aura that he felt from Luna. Anthadd was examining a small rock which had an unusual colour.

"Poo..." said Luna sweetly, with some conviction in her voice, "What are you doing?"
"Cooking food! I'm starved!" he answered back happily, while something crackled, sizzled, and burned in the background. "Would you guy like so-"
But he was rapidly cut off by Mike, Skulryk, and Dan tackling him, while Luna tied him up.
"WHAT WAS THAT FOR!?" Poo shouted, while yelling at the four as he struggled with his bonds.
"To stop you from cooking. We're hoping on not burning this boat," Mike said grimly.
"Just in time, too..." Skulryk announced, holding an extinguisher, and sounding very relieved. "His attempt at what appears to be a steak was on fire."
"You can't do this to me!" Poo bellowed at the four companions.
"Too late." Dan grinned.
"C'mon let's take him up to the top deck, we can keep a better eye on him there," Luna said, dragging Poo up the steps by a rope.
"Heh, that looks painful," said Mike, trying to hide his grin.

"We need to get moving," Cyan said.
"Yes," Anthadd nodded in agreement. "We need to find out more about Belch and his Animus."
"Perhaps we ought to take a few precautions first," Siris piped up. "I have a few spells that could help us to defend ourselves..."
Anna nodded, and Anthadd spoke. "I concur," he said. "Do what you can to help."
"What spells...?" Siris asked himself. He turned to the group. "How about Nondetection? It makes it so that your aura cannot be sensed, except by specific people that you choose."
"Aura?" Cyan inquired.
"Uh... yes," Siris confirmed. "Some beings are able to sense the life energies, or auras, of others. I am one of them."
"Ah," An understanding dawned on Anthadd. "That's why you seemed so quiet when you met the other group. You were studying their auras."
Siris smiled. "Yes," he acknowledged. "Every aura is unique, and I can recognize them just as any other person can recognize faces." He took a breath. "Anyway, allow me to cast this spell. Nondetection will prevent others from sensing your auras. I, however, as the caster, will still be able to sense you; one of the spell's benefits."
Siris walked up to Anthadd and put his hands on his friend's shoulders. He closed his eyes and concentrated, and magical energy flowed through his arms into Anthadd's body, masking his aura. He did the same to Cyan, then nervously approached Anna to cast it again. As he touched her shoulders, he gradually felt a burning sensation in his hands. When he finished the spell, he blew on his hands to cool them down.
"Is there any way we can be sure that the spell worked?" Cyan asked.
"Not really," Siris frowned. "I can still sense your auras, as I am the one who cast the spell. You'll just have to trust me."
Fortunately for Siris, he was very trustworthy. He would never lie to a friend or ally, and he most always kept his word.
Anthadd spoke up. "Yes, I trust you." Cyan and Anna nodded. Siris smiled.

Anthadd, Siris, Cyan and Anna continued on their way, hoping to find some way to break Belch's Animus.
"I know it's a feeling," Anthadd mused, "but I can't help but feel there's more to it than that..."
"What do you mean?" Siris inquired.
"Well," Anthadd began, "wasn't he dead after Ness killed him in Deep Darkness?"
The other three pondered this for a second, and then nodded their heads.
"You mean.... this Animus isn't simply a feeling?" Anna cried, small sparks flying out of her arms. "It could be an actual power?"
"I thought we debunked that," Siris said.
"Maybe it's because we didn't know much about it," Cyan offered, "or we were more interested in something else."
The four thought back to RG. They rued having ever been so... despicable to him. Why had they behaved like that? They weren't even better than Belch in that respect. In fact, they were probably worse than Belch...
"However," Anthadd commented, "there is the fact we've got a duty to do: Defeat Belch, and squelch the Animus."
He waited for a reaction from the others.
"And to do that," he added, "we have to find him. And before that, we need to find his weakness."
Anna's sparking subsided, and she raised her hands.
"What does a weakness have to do with beating him?" she asked impatiently.
"If we find his weakness," Siris concluded, "that means we've got an advantage on him!"

"It's prolly a mut'nt!" reasoned Rusty. "Ness, you can do th' honors."
Ness cracked his knuckles, picked up his bat, and swung a few practice swings. ness jumped in the air.
"BANZAI!" yelled Ness, but was soon interrupted by his little sister.
"What if it's not a mutant?" questioned Tracy.
Ness fell to the ground.
"Did you REALLY have to ask me while I was in the air?" Ness frustratedly asked as he dusted himself off.
"Tracy's got a point," explained Paula.
"Let's throw something at it," suggested Mika.
Rusty picked up a rock and threw it at the bushes.
"GYORK!"
The group looked at each other. Tracy looked at Ness and nodded. Ness leapt into the air and brought his bat crashing down on the bush. To his surprise, Ness was slowly being pulled into the bushes. Mika ran up next to the bush, but didn't attack. Instead, she went on her hands and knees.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" screamed Ness, who couldn't get out of the bush.
Paula, who looked like she was on fire, ran up to Mika as if she were to punt her. As she approached Mika, she stepped on her and shot herself off into the sky. As soon as she was parallel to whatever was behind the bush, she started firing.
"PSI FIRE! PSI FIRE! PSI FIIIIIIIRE!"
Still in the air, Paula passed the bush and landed on the ground by doing a roll. She turned around to see the bush and the mutant, who was behind the bush after all, ablaze.
"HOT!" screamed Ness. In reaction, he pulled his hand out of the bush and ran over to the group. Paula and Mika followed behind.
"Ok!" said Tracy breathing heavily. "Let's get out of here."
"Gud idea!" Rusty agreed. "An' one more thing. Ness, why dintcha jes pull yer hand out in th' first place?"
"Well, it had my bat, and I didn't want to lose it...."
Mika patted Ness on the back. He turned around to see his bat in her hands.
"While Paula was firing at it, I was able to get it!"
Ness grabbed the bat and fell to his knees.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you..." he said as he kissed her feet.
Mika grinned. Paula glared at Mika.

"And then what happened?" Dan asked.
"And then I basically just saved Poo," Mike said, finishing his story of how he met Poo.
"Aw, come on, let me go!" Poo said as he struggled to get free.
"Promise not to cook anything?" Luna asked, giving in.
"Yes!" Poo exclaimed happily, knowing he had won. Luna untied him.
The group took a moment to take in the freshness of the sea air. Suddenly, Poo's eyes widened. He turned around and grabbed the life jackets. "Put these on quick," Poo said, urgently.
"What's wrong, Poo?" Mike asked with a puzzled look on his face, as he put his life jacket on. The others put on theirs on as well.
"Now, jump!" Poo yelled.
"Poo, are you cra--" Dan started to say, but before he could finish, Poo shoved Luna, Mike, Skulryk, and Dan into the water; he jumped in as well. Right before their very eyes, their boat shattered into a million pieces. In front of them was a Kraken. But this was no ordinary Kraken. It had a dark red mark on it at the exact same place where Poo had once threw a steering wheel at it.
It roared to show its anger. Everyone tried to swim away, but was blinded by the Kraken's pale green light. It then started to spin in a rapid motion, causing a gigantic whirlpool. Everyone screamed simultaneously, but even the combined volume of their screams were drowned out by the rushing waters.

"Perhaps this could help," Anna said slowly, taking something from her cloak. In her hand was the piece of the glyph she had blown off in the pyramid.
Anthadd blinked, and stared down at it for a closer look.
"Well, lesse here...here's everything I already know, about the Animus...but wait!" he said, pulling his face closer to the drawing. "Look at this picture."
Siris and Cyan craned over to see a picture of a small insect flying along the bottom of the scroll.
"Could it mean Buzz Buzz?" Siris guessed.
Anna snickered. "How? From what I�ve heard, the bug Buzz Buzz is from the future. Hieroglyphs are ancient wonders, from the farthest reaches of time. What are the odds? They couldn't have predicted this."
Anthadd nodded, but then he stopped. "Anna... why would you have taken the hieroglyph in the first place? It doesn't make any sense."
Anna looked thoughtful for a moment, and then looked back at him. "The Animus. None of you realize its true power..."

Anna explains the true power of Animus
Animosity is born inside of every human at one time or another. It is a burning hate which can control even the simplest of emotions, taking the very breath from you, only to feed its will. Usually, it is targeted toward a person the first person knows, but it is sometimes random. The important thing is that it never stays that way for long. An Animus will generally expand, and create a burning hate for a large group of things. It is no longer specific. When it reaches that stage, the Animus takes over. A person is merely a shell, and the Animus is the controller.

"You can see why I didn't want you to have the hieroglyph at first. If people knew of the Animus, they might believe its possible to defeat. But it isn't."
"I find it hard to believe," Anthadd said, "That the Animus is undefeatable. This picture..." He pointed to the small fly. "It might be our best clue."

"Well, thanks for saving us, Poo..." Mike said, exasperated. He pulled Poo up from under the water, allowing him to breathe. "Of course, this is all your fault..."
"I'm sorry! I didn't even mean to do anything! YOU shouldn't have wasted the food, so it's all YOUR fault!!!" Poo started to bawl. "You just HAD to waste all that food!!!"
"Hey, quit cryin', ya baby. We need to figure out how to get out of this situation." Luna was treading water. The Kraken reared its head and shot a flame into the air.
Dan was treading water as well. "You know, we may be screwed. This is great, just great." He pulled out his zapper, ready to shoot the Kraken.
"Don't!!!" Mike stopped him. "We're in no position to fight. If it wanted to kill us, it would have already done so."
Skulryk was swimming around slowly. He pulled out his dagger. "You know, what's even the point? Why don't we just take it out, eh?" He stopped to think for a moment and grinned. He put his dagger away. Mike started to grin as well. Poo was already grinning.
"What are you guys grinning about?" Poo asked. He continued to grin. Skul and Mike looked at him, watching his every move. "What?!"
Luna and Dan started to grin at him as well. Poo, starting to grow suspicious, started to paddle away, very slowly since he couldn't swim. "No! Get away! Anything but that!!!" It was too late. Everybody swam towards him and grabbed ahold of his arms and legs.
Mike reached into Poo's shirt pocket and pulled a piece of a burger from it. The burger was only slightly damp.
"Nooo!!!! I don't know how long we'll be out here!!! That's all that I have to live on!" He started to struggle out of the hold that Dan, Skul, and Luna had of him. They kept a firm grip on his extremities, though. Mike chucked the burger to the Kraken.
The Kraken caught the burger in its mouth and ate it. It started to wave its head around, and then lowered it. It scooped Mike up onto the top of its head.
"Hey guys, everything'll be okay, I think. We'll be able to hitch a ride on this here Kraken to Scaraba." Luna and Dan let out a cheer. Skulryk started to laugh. Poo sulked. They all climbed on.
"Stupid Kraken, you ate my foo-" Poo started, but was promptly hushed by Luna. The Kraken swam on towards Scaraba.

Perched upon the Kraken's head, the sunset looked beautiful as it dropped past the coast of Scaraba. Nighttime was nearing, but thankfully the group didn't have to worry about freezing. The day had dried off their clothes, and it was quite comfortabe atop the kraken.
Poo kept griping about the loss of his hamburger, but was constantly reminded that they were pretty lucky for getting a ride to Scaraba.
"Aah, quit punching me!" Poo said. "What are we going to do once we get to Scaraba anyways?"
Skulryk sighed. "There's a whole lot to do in Scaraba... I think we'll find a lot in there. I know a lot about it, remember? I work for the museum."
"How'd you get a job there, anyways?" Luna said. "You only look about 16! Usually the museum hires people a bit... older, and usually with collage degrees and stuff."
"Heh... it's kind of a funny story," Skulryk said. "When I was a kid, my parents worked for lots of expeditions in Scaraba. I spent my entire childhood learning about the history of it and all kinds of other stuff... After their last expedition, they retired and moved to Toto. Now, a whole big discovery happened in Scaraba, and they got all these artifacts. They were really short on hands, and my dad is friends with the owner of the museum, so they hired me."
"Hey, that's pretty interesting," Mike said. "Must have been weird, though... travelling all over Scaraba as a kid... Problem is, you don't get to keep many friends..."
"Yeah, that's true..." Skulryk sighed. "I guess that's unavoidable. But anyways, once I got my job at the museum, it all paid off... It's a pretty high paying job, especially for someone my age. I also make a ton of discoveries this way... Don't tell anyone, of course, but it's how I got my knife." The others gasped. "I know, it's not the right thing to do... but there's some kind of power in it. I'm not sure how, but I know there is, and it's already done me a whole lot more than it would have done in a display case."
"Well, that's up to you..." Luna said. "But Poo asked a good question. What will we do once we get to Scaraba?"
"The pyramids, of course," Skulryk said. "There's currently 4 that are known of; that's including the pyramid that was recently discovered which we're recieving all the artifacts from. However, the desert is large and vast. I think there's another one, with a whole lot more power. We just have to find it."
"I dunno," said Mike. "We could die wandering out into the desert that long... what makes you think we'll find a pyramid that noone's found before? I don't think we should risk our lives on just a hunch..."
"We'll decide once we get there," Skulryk said. The sun had set, and a cold desert night had set in. They were approaching Scaraba.

SimonBob stopped his CD and stepped outside the cabin. "Now, if I were a giant hideous blob of who-knows-what, I'd go to... Scaraba!"
"That's a pretty wild leap of logic," observed SulamiTea. "What makes you think that?"
"I dunno, my intuition tells me I'd have better success going that way." Checking his arsenal one final time, SimonBob leapt into the air and began flying to Scaraba, SulamiTea following close behind.
Before long, they noticed something green and scaly in the water. "Looks like a Kraken," said SulamiTea.
"Or an envious Lapras," quipped SimonBob. They floated in for a better look, and found Skulryk, Dan, Luna, and Poo perched atop the Kraken's head.
SimonBob greeted them. "Hey guys, how's it goin'? Can you hook us up with a ride? Flying's really tiring."
"Only if you have food!" shouted Poo.
Reaching into his trenchcoat, SimonBob pulled out a packet of cookies and tossed it to Poo. The Kraken growled - "Rawr!" - so SimonBob tossed it a cookie as well. He and SulamiTea landed on the Kraken's head, and they continued sailing to Scaraba.
"What's in Scaraba, anyhow?" asked SimonBob.
"Pyramids, mostly."
"Cool."